Dec 1, 2008

Yesterday I started dragging out my Christmas decorations. They're still in the boxes because we have not one, not two, but three bum strings of lights. I sent my husband to the store for replacement bulbs. Somehow he came home with bulbs to fit every kind of string except the one I must have before I can put ornaments on the tree.

So, anyway, there in the box is my old gum wrapper chain that I made many years ago, when dinosaurs still roamed the earth, when I was in sixth grade.

Sixth grade was pretty unchallenging I guess. My friend Lisa, who sat in front of me, drew our teacher as a paper doll and, as the year went on, all her outfits. I made a gum wrapper chain. It's probably 50 feet long. I use it as garland on my Christmas tree.

The first few feet were given to me by a big high school girl up the street who had lost interest in it. I figure some of these gum wrapper date back to the mid 1960s!

And the best part? I chewed none of the gum from these wrappers, not one single stick. I had complicated braces that made it impossible. I had everyone saving wrappers for me.

Which brings me to our extreme craft idea of the day: the Gum Wrapper Chain Purse (also known as a Candy Wrapper Purse).

I started one a while ago, mostly using Muse and New Yorker covers. I need to get back to it and finish up. You can see I made a small sample to see how it worked and then started a big one. On the larger one I have emphasized the top edge with black because it's so hard to tell which part is the front and which part is the inside!

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